Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
Module Identifier
WL35230
Module Title
The Rise of Welsh Writing in English
Academic Year
2013/2014
Co-ordinator
Semester
Intended for use in future years
Course Delivery
Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
---|---|
Seminars / Tutorials | 20 Hours. Seminar. (10 x 2 hour seminars) |
Assessment
Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
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Semester Assessment | Continuous Assessment: 2 x 3000 word essays | 100% |
Supplementary Assessment | Resubmit or resit failed elements and/or make good any missing elements |
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the module, students will be able to:
1. locate and discuss Welsh Writing in English in its cultural and historical context;
2. assess the influence of linguistic, economic, social and political factors on literary texts;
3. examine the tensions inherent in the cultural programme of Welsh Writing in English;
4. examine the way in which these texts interrogate issues of class, gender and national/ linguistic identity;
5. write about literary texts in a critically-focused and well-structured manner.
Brief description
The module will be taught by means of weekly two-hour seminars. Students are expected to purchase the five texts - by Caradoc Evans, Dylan Thomas, Glyn Jones, Hilda Vaughan and Emyr Humphreys - for which editions are designated (by an *) in the following programme.
_Programme
_1. A Culture in Transition (3 seminars)
_i) Introduction: 'The Anglo-Welsh Ideology'
_i) Myth and War
_i) A Passive Resistance
_i) Bilingual Identities
_Programme
_1. A Culture in Transition (3 seminars)
_i) Introduction: 'The Anglo-Welsh Ideology'
- Texts: selected critical material
- Text: Caradoc Evans, My People, ed John Harris (Seren, 1997)*
- Text: Idris Davies, Gwalia Deserta and The Angry Summer
_i) Myth and War
- Texts: selections from Alun Lewis's writings
- Text: Dylan Thomas, Selected Poems, ed. Walford Davies (Penguin, 2000)*
- Text: Glyn Jones, The Island of Apples, ed. Belinda Humfrey (University of Wales Press)*
_i) A Passive Resistance
- Text: Hilda Vaughan, 'A Thing of Nought', in A View Across the Valley: Short Stories by Women from Wales 1800-1950 ed. Jane Aaron (Honno Press)*
- Texts: selected short stories and poems by Dorothy Edwards, Margiad Evans, Lynette Roberts and Gillian Clarke
_i) Bilingual Identities
- Text: Emyr Humphreys, A Toy Epic, ed. M. Wynn Thomas (Seren Press)*
- Texts by R S Thomas
Content
The module will be taught by means of weekly two-hour seminars. Students are expected to purchase the five texts - by Caradoc Evans, Dylan Thomas, Glyn Jones, Hilda Vaughan and Emyr Humphreys - for which editions are designated (by an *) in the following programme.
_Programme
_1. A Culture in Transition (3 seminars)
_i) Introduction: 'The Anglo-Welsh Ideology'
_i) Myth and War
_i) A Passive Resistance
_i) Bilingual Identities
_Programme
_1. A Culture in Transition (3 seminars)
_i) Introduction: 'The Anglo-Welsh Ideology'
- Texts: selected critical material
- Text: Caradoc Evans, My People, ed John Harris (Seren, 1997)*
- Text: Idris Davies, Gwalia Deserta and The Angry Summer
_i) Myth and War
- Texts: selections from Alun Lewis's writings
- Text: Dylan Thomas, Selected Poems, ed. Walford Davies (Penguin, 2000)*
- Text: Glyn Jones, The Island of Apples, ed. Belinda Humfrey (University of Wales Press)*
_i) A Passive Resistance
- Text: Hilda Vaughan, 'A Thing of Nought', in A View Across the Valley: Short Stories by Women from Wales 1800-1950 ed. Jane Aaron (Honno Press)*
- Texts: selected short stories and poems by Dorothy Edwards, Margiad Evans, Lynette Roberts and Gillian Clarke
_i) Bilingual Identities
- Text: Emyr Humphreys, A Toy Epic, ed. M. Wynn Thomas (Seren Press)*
- Texts by R S Thomas
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6